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Kung-Fu Strike, La Mulana, Beast Boxing by Last 03/06/2013, 12:11pm PST Kung-Fu Strike is pretty fun. I've only played a couple hours so I'm not sure how well it will hold up. It's a brawler where you play a Shaolin Kung-Fu guy. WASD controls your movement, HJKL are the fight buttons. You can upgrade your guy in between levels, and replay earlier levels for score. What I really really like is that the H button throws a million punches per second for as long as you have it held down. Your power meter charges up pretty fast, the enemies are varied enough, K does a flying bicycle kick, L dodges, spacebar does a defensive counter. I got it for $5 and it was WELL worth the price. The challenge is about right, in that there's plenty of cannon fodder for you to chop-socky until coins fly out but there are also some bosses that are pretty tough. It's exactly as much fun as early brawlers were, adjusted for inflation. It's a good game when you have a half hour and you want to jump around being Jackie Chan. I don't know how "deep" the game gets though. So far I seem to be doing mostly the same stuff, just against different kinds of enemies. La Mulana It's a cute little 2-d platformer similar to Goonies 2 where you explore caves and mountains. The puzzles are some fucking BULL SHIT, in that there's literally no way to discover some things without using gamefaqs. Never once did I find a solution to a puzzle and think "Oh, that's clever!". It was only ever "Oh, well fuck you too, game." One "puzzle" is to walk through an invisible doorway that has no indication or hint of it existing. Most puzzles involve you changing one detail in one room and then a tiny effect occurs seven screens away and the game doesn't indicate that anything happened. Have fun comparing before/after screenshots, fuckface! Certain rooms are one-way death traps (e.g., you fall into water and there is literally no exit so you sit there getting bored until you drown). Okay I want to be charitable since it's just an indie game. I'd say if you play it you won't kill yourself, but it's nowhere near worth $15. Beast Boxing Pretty fun Mike Tyson clone (like MM said). The enemies have insta-kill attacks which are SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT. Even though you learn to avoid the insta-kill moves it's still a fucking idiotic thing to put in a boxing game. Otherwise it's pretty good. It was a little too hard for me. Every time you lose a fight you have to fight the previous enemy first before you can retry, so I ended up pounding the piss out of the praying mantis like ten times for no reason while I was trying to get good enough to beat the skeleton. After a while I got frustrated. I blame myself for being bad at video games, though. Beast Boxing is A-OK in my book. It does feel good to really memorize a guy's pattern and then you can easily kick the living shit out of him even though an hour before he was like the toughest boxer ever.

Kung-Fu Strike, La Mulana, Beast Boxing by Last 03/06/2013, 12:11pm PST